Intended organization of KDE Frameworks

[John Layt]

On Tuesday 28 Jun 2011 17:27:35 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday, June 27, 2011 22:18:08 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > Localization is not only about user visible texts, It is also about
> > > kconfig having per language keys, it is about kstandarddirs::locate
> > > being able to find localized icons, etc.
> > 
> > I hear you, but by the definition of Tier 1 none of this can be used in
> > Tier 1 frameworks because "Tier 1 frameworks depend only on Qt itself
> > and no other Qt based framework".
> 
> other possibilities include:
> 
> * approving a "tier 1 dep exception" for localization; this was discussed
> at Platform 11 as possible, though probably not preferable to:
> 
> * improving localization in Qt5 and merging in the best bits of KDE in this
> regard there
> 
> there is alread some work going on for his which started at Platform 11. i
> don't know what the current status of it is and how many of the
> localization bits will land in Qt5, but this would be, imho at least, the
> best possible result.

That would be me then :-)  I'll have some emails for the list shortly on these 
subjects including the discussions at QtCS.  In short, most of what we want 
looks likely to happen.

However, its not all about the Locale stuff I'm doing, stuff like the 
KStandardDirs::locate is more about paths and platform plugins which guys like 
David are looking into.  I'm not sure when a library would need Icons, but 
they will sometimes need Translation and Locale for error messages, and paths 
to grab other stuff.

So yeah, a lot of this depends on getting stuff into Qt to work better with 
KDE as a supported Platform.

John.